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corCTF 2024: trojan-turtles writeup

19 minute read

This year I played corCTF with Shellphish, and we did pretty well – placing 6th! I worked on two challenges: ‘trojan-turtles’ and ‘its-just-a-dos-bug-bro’, i...

Understanding x86_64 Paging

22 minute read

I’ve spent quite a lot of time messing with x86_64 page tables, understanding address translation is not easy and when I started learning about it I felt lik...

corCTF 2023: sysruption writeup

25 minute read

I played corCTF this weekend and managed to solve two pretty tough challenges. This will be a writeup for the first of those two, sysruption, which I managed...

Understanding Memory Deduplication Attacks

13 minute read

I recently came across a bunch of research describing attacks on memory deduplication, it has been used to fingerprint systems[1], crack (K)ASLR[2,3,4], leak...